Metallurgy & Metal-Working Terminology & Definitions
Alchemy (a) Alchemy was the science (or pseudo-science) of combined disciplines in chemistry, metallurgy, physics, ...
METALLURGY. The art of separating metals from their ores or from impurities; smelting, reducing, refining, amalgamating, alloying, parting, brazing, plating, etc.
metallurgy - The study of the physical and chemical properties of metals.
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oxide - formed when the molecules of a metal combine with oxygen from the surrounding air. The result is a darkening of the metal.
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Abbott (1881), Primitive industry*
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Metallurgy: the art and science of extracting metals from their ores and preparing them for use by the manufacturer, who fashions them into finished articles.
electrometallurgy The separation of metals from ore or from alloys through an electrical process, or the forming of alloys and purification of metals through an electrical process.
[edit] Extractive metallurgy
The science of extractive metallurgy is a specialized area in the science of metallurgy that studies the extraction of valuable metals and minerals from their ores, especially through chemical or mechanical means.
Charles Olden (Emeralds: Their Mode of Occurrence and Methods of Mining and Extraction in Colombia, Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (1911), vol. 21, p.194) writes that at the outset operations were confined to the Coscuez ...
Principles of Physical Metallurgy. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1943.
DeGarmo, E. Paul. Materials and Processes in Manufacturing. 4th ed. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, 1969.
Feirer, John L.
The invention of the steam-driven stamping machine, electro-metallurgy and the Tour a' Guilloche machine in the 18th and 19h centuries opened up cufflinks to a wider audience.
Dig a little deeper, and you'll find metallurgy, textiles, ceramics, and wood and stone carvings from around 3,500 B.C. (the earliest known art forms, created by the Valdavia culture on the Ecuadorian coast) to the coming of Christopher Columbus.
 See also: Metal, Rough, Element, Mineral, Surface
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